Symposia

Integrating field and lab approaches to understanding fishes: a celebration of Bill McFarland's zealotry (open invitation for speakers, contact symposium organizer)

Bill McFarland, a longtime participant and proponent of EEEF conferences, was a good friend and research companion to many and inspiration to many more.  In recognition of Mac's adamant insistence that he not be memorialized, we will instead celebrate Mac's love of fishes, of combined field and lab work, and of the insights that multidisciplinary pursuits provide in understanding how fishes work.  Papers will be restricted to anything Mac would have found interesting.  Those criteria will be liberally enforced.  Send queries or prospective titles/abstracts to Gene Helfman, helfman@uga.edu

Keynote Address: Flo McAlary, "Light Induced Burying Behavior in the Senorita Wrasse Oxyjulis californica".

Organizer:

Gene Helfman

helfman@uga.edu   
Institute of Ecology

University of Georgia  
Athens, GA 30602    
Telephone:706-542-3346 

FAX: 706-542-3344   

Ladies Night Out: females' perspectives on mating (open invitation for speakers, contact symposium organizer)

For many species of fish, most research on reproduction has focused on males, while data on females is either neglected or sparse.  There are usually various reasons for this discrepancy.  For example, males are often bigger, brighter and more conspicuous, making them easier to study.  Numerous studies have investigated fertilization success in males as it relates to sexual selection theory.  In the past few years, more investigators have begun to focus on the reproductive biology and behavior of females.  These studies have shown that various assumptions of female reproduction may not apply in all cases.  For example, studies on demersal spawning damselfish indicate that females spawn frequently, are promiscuous, and copy the mating decisions of other females.  The purpose of this symposium is to look at reproduction from a female’s perspective and its potential influence on paradigms related to such things as mating systems, mate choice, and sexual selection.

Organizer:
Denis Goulet
dgoulet@olemiss.edu
Department of Biology
The University of Mississippi
University, MS 38677
Telephone: 662-915-7213
Fax: 662-915-5144

Desert fishes: model systems for ecology, evolution and conservation (open invitation for speakers, contact symposium organizer)

Fishes of the southwestern North American deserts are ideal systems to study such basic and applied questions as competition, local adaptation, community structure, biogeographic patterns, speciation, endangered species biology and restoration ecology.
We welcome submissions that address these and related topics. Criteria for inclusion in the symposium will be based on (1) the relevance of submissions to the subject of the symposium, and (2) the order in which we receive abstracts.  We expect more submissions than can be accommodated in the time allocated to the symposium, so please contact us as soon as possible if you would like to participate.

Organizers:
Astrid  Kodric-Brown
kodric@unm.edu
Department of Biology
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Telephone: 505-277-9336

Peter Reinthal
pnr@email.arizona.edu
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ   85721
Telephone: 520-621-7518